Flavio Santiago Movies
- 1987
- R
In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Guilherme Fontes, Milton Goncalves, (more)
- 1983
This film is a mix of 1971 footage of Jose Martínez-Correía's stage production of O Rei da Vela, and three additional years of shooting between 1979-1982, the whole put together in a series of somewhat arbitrary images. Although the story behind this bewildering film is based on a man who sells candles and gets involved both with the Brazilian rural aristocracy and the Americans, the principle director and writer of Rei Da Vela, Martínez-Correía (with Noilton Nuñes) has modified this basic plot. He has combined a history of his own fight for freedom of expression. (Martínez-Correía was exiled to Europe for a few years at the beginning of the 1970s for his political activities). ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jose Wilker, Ester Goes, (more)
- 1981
- R
This Brazilian erotic exercise stars Sonia Braga and Paulo Cesar Pereio as lovers who aren't in love. Attracted to each other's all-stops-out sexuality, Braga and Pereio use one another in every sense of the word. It is only at fadeout time that they learn to their surprise that they have genuinely fallen for each other. Though it shies away from closeups, I Love You is about as hard-core as it's possible to get in a mainstream film. Originally titled Eu Te Amo, I Love You made its American debut sans a rating of any kind -- "X" or otherwise. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sonia Braga, Paulo Cesar Pereio, (more)
